Thursday, December 31, 2015

Schiller Park Illinois is located adjacent to the O'Hare airport in suburban Cook County. According to the census population is approximately 12,000. With the exception of airplane noise Schiller Park is a nice place to live.

The village offers some excellent linkages with easy access to Interstate 294, the Kennedy Expressway and the NW. Toll Rd. There is easy access to the CTA Blue Line in nearby Rosemont and Metro trains in nearby Franklin Park.

Real estate appraiser Michael Walsh recently performed a single-family appraisal and shares his market analysis in this video.

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Single-family housing prices are fluctuating, prices are overall down since 2013, the market is oversupplied and distressed home sales are over 50% of total sales real estate appraiser Michael Walsh shares his market analysis on Dolton Illinois in this video

Monday, December 21, 2015

As a shortage of active listings on attached homes and condominiums in Woodridge Illinois. Median sales prices have been increasing over the last three years, with a large increase in 2015. Marketing times are down to an average of 81 days on the market. Real estate appraiser Michael Walsh shares his market analysis in this video.

Sunday, December 20, 2015

Chicago Zoning Board of Appeals is a five-member board that was appointed by the mayor and meets monthly at City Hall to review land-use issues that pertain to the Chicago zoning ordinance title 17 of the municipal code of Chicago. These include special use applications which are an exception from current zoning regulations and zoning variations that can be a requested by a property owner to grant permission to deviate from current zoning requirements.

In this video Citywide Services appraisers discusses the appeal process and the need of an appraiser at the hearing.

Tuesday, December 08, 2015

Located on the northern edge of the city of Chicago is the community area of Forest Glen. The community area contains the neighborhoods of Edgebrook, Sauganash and Wildwood. Median sales prices had been stable for several years and in 2015 prices went up 6%.

Citywide Services just completed a single-family appraisal in Forest Glen and shares their market analysis in this video.